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My Chums in Caricature 




My Athletic Friend 




Name 



Address 
Date 



My Chums in 
Caricature 

A Burlesque Gallery 



Herschel Williams 




Chicago 

A. C. McClurg & Co. 
1909 






Copyright 

A. C. MCCLURG & CO. 

1909 

Published October, 1909 



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The Caslon Press 
Chicago 



Mp dear Friend: 

The owner of this booklet takes this 
opportunity of inviting you to place your 
portrait in this valuable collection of art gems. 
The additional honor of being solicited to 
enroll your name upon this cherished roster of 
esteemed associates should not be lightly 
valued. Turn to the page assigned to you, 
and you will find a quotation that fits you 
with absolute nicety. On this page please 
place a picture that will burlesque the quo- 
tation. The picture should be cut from 
the comic colored supplement of a news- 
paper. Figures of animals and other objects 
may also be pasted upon the page to produce 
a bizarre or an artistic effect. Below this 
caricature write your name, address, and the 
date of writing. 

Yours very cordially, 



His Book] 



The Ladies 



My Gentle Friend 






Page 13 


My Loyal Friend 








4 15 


My Promising Friend 








4 17 


My Elegant Friend . 








4 19 


My Hospitable Friend . 








4 21 


My Artistic Friend . 








4 23 


My Winning Friend . 








4 25 


My Talkative Friend . 








4 27 


My Appreciative Friend 








4 29 


My Dutiful Friend . 








,. 3] 


My Society Friend . 








4 33 


My Fascinating Friend 








4 35 


My Graceful Friend . 








4 37 


My Ambitious Friend 








14 39 


My Dignified Friend . 








4 41 


My Beautiful Friend . 








4 43 


My Useful Friend 








4 45 


My Musical Friend . 








4 47 


My Innocent Friend . 








4 49 


My Versatile Friend . 








4 51 


My Perfect Friend . 








4 53 


My Angelic Friend . 








4 55 


My Sanctimonious Friend 








4 57 


My Fickle Friend 








4 59 


My Bonny Friend 








4 61 



The Gentlemen 



My Abstinent Friend 






Page 14 


My Optimistic Friend 






" 16 


My Spiritual Friend 






" 18 


My Mischievous Friend . 






" 20 


My Honest Friend . 






" 22 


My Prudent Friend . 






" 24 


My Witty Friend . . 






" 26 


My Philosophical Friend 






" 28 


My Unsusceptible Friend 






" 30 


My Impulsive Friend 






" 32 


My Frank Friend 






" 34 


My Fat Friend . 






" 36 


My Slim Friend . 






" 38 


My Gay Friend . 






" 40 


My Majestic Friend . 






" 42 


My Handsome Friend 






" 44 


My Learned Friend . 






" 46 


My Venerable Friend 






" 48 


My Argumentative Frienc 


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u 50 


My Humorous Friend 






" 52 


My Model Friend . 






" 54 


My Emotional Friend 




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" 56 


My Manly Friend . 






" 58 


My Broad Friend 






" 60 


My Indispensable Friend 






" 62 



Friends are like stars serene and bright, 
That travel round in space; 

Each sheds his own God-given light, 
And each one has his place. 




My Gentle Friend 

Her outward charms are less 
Than her winning gentleness. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



13 



My Abstinent Friend 

The glow of temperance o'er his cheek is spread, 
Where the soft down half veils the chasten'd red. 



Name — 
Address^ 
Date 



14 



My Loyal Friend 

Gracious to all ; but where your love is due — 
So fast, so faithful, loyal, just and true, 
That a bold hand as soon might hope to force 
The rolling light of Heaven, as stay your course. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



My Optimistic Friend 

A man thou seem'st of cheerful yesterdays, 
And confident to-morrows. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



16 



My Promising Friend 

Oh, thou wilt ever be what now thou art, 
Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring ; 

As fair in form, as warm, yet pure in heart- 
Love's image upon earth without the sting. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



17 



Name^ 
Address. 
Date 



My Spiritual Friend 

Your person is a paradise, and 
Your soul the cherub to guard. 



18 



My Elegant Friend 

You look so neat and sweet in 
All your frills and fancy pleatin' 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



19 



My Mischievous Friend 

You are the Punch to stir up trouble, 
You wriggle, fidge, and make a riot, 
Put all your brother puppets out. 



Name — 
Address^ 
Date 



20 



My Hospitable Friend 

She sways her house, commands her followers, 
Takes and gives back affairs and their dispatch 
With a most smooth, discreet, and stable bearing. 



Name_ 
Address. 
Date 



21 



My Honest Friend 

You look the whole world in the face, 
For you owe not any man. 



Name_ 
Address. 
Date 



22 



My Artistic Friend 

Mind is her best gift, and poetry her world ; 
And she will see strange beauty in a flower, 
As by a subtle vision. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



23 



My Prudent Friend 

You may be thrown among the gay and reckless 

sons of life, 
But will not love the revel scene or head the 

brawling strife. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



24 



My Winning Friend 

If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look in her face and you'll forget them all. 



Name_ 
Address, 
Date 



My Witty Friend 

Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun, 
To relish a joke, and rejoice in a pun. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date^ 



26 



My Talkative Friend 

I would my horse had the speed of her tongue. 



7Vame_ 
Address^ 
Date 



-27 



My Philosophical Friend 

His words are strong, but not with anger fraught, 
A lore benignant he hath lived and taught; 
To draw mankind to heaven by gentleness 
And good example is his business. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



28 



My Appreciative Friend 

Seldom she speaks, but she will listen 
With all the signs of soul ; 
Her cheeks will change, her eyes will glisten 
As waves of feeling roll. 



Name — 
Address^ 
Date 



29 



My Unsusceptible Friend 

You ve turned up your nose at the short, 
And cast down your eyes at the tall ; 
But then you just did it in sport, 
And now you're no lover at all. 



7Vame_ 
Address 
Date 



30 



My Dutiful Friend 

No simplest duty is forgot; 

Life hath no dim and lonely spot 

That doth not in her sunshine share. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



33 



My Impulsive Friend 

A being of sudden smiles and tears, 
Passionate visions, quick light and shade. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



32 



My Society Friend 

She was our queen, our rose, our star ; 

And then she danced — oh heavens, her dancing! 



Name_ 
Address. 
Date 



33 



My Frank Friend 

Readable as open book ; 

And much of easy dignity there lies 

In the frank lifting of his cordial eyes. 



Name^ 
Address. 
Date 



34 



My Fascinating Friend 

'Tis not her eye or lip we beauty call, 
But the joint force and full result of all. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



35 



My Fat Friend 

He's fat and scant o* breath. 



Name — 
Address 
Date 



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My Graceful Friend 

The fashion of her gracefulness is not a follow'd rule, 
And her effervescent sprightliness was never taught 
at school. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



37 



My Slim Friend 

A phantom, fashionably thin. 



7Vame_ 
Address, 
Date 



38 



My Ambitious Friend 

Man may not hope her heart to win, 
Be his of common mould. 



Name_ 
Address. 
Date. 



39 



My Gay Friend 

His young bosom feels the enchantment strong 
Of light and joy, and minstrelsy and song. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



10 



My Dignified Friend 

Blest with temper, whose unclouded ray 
Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day: 
Spleen, vapor, or small-pox, above them all, 
And mistress of herself though china fall. 



Name_ 
Address. 
Date 



41 



My Majestic Friend 

His large fair front and eye sublime declare 
Absolute rule, and hyacinthine locks 
Round from his parted forehead manly hang 
Clustering. 



Name__ 
Address. 
Date 



42 



My Beautiful Friend 

Do but look in her eyes, they do light 
All that love's world compriseth; 
Do but look on her hair, it is bright 
As love's star when it riseth. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



43 



My Handsome Friend 

He's handsome, valiant, young, 

And looks as he were laid for nature's best, 

To catch weak women's eyes. 



Name_ 
Address. 
Date 



44 



My Useful Friend 

Graceful and useful all she does, 
Blessing and blest where'er she goes. 



Name — 
Address 
Date 



+.3 



My Learned Friend 

And still we gaze, and still the wonder grows 
That one small head can carry all he knows. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



46 



My Musical Friend 

It seemed she could have floated in the sky, 
And with the angelic choir made symphony. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



47 



My Venerable Friend 

Age sits with decent grace upon her visage, 
And worthy becomes his silver locks ; 
He wears the marks of many years well spent, 
Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience. 



Name — 
Address, 
Date 



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My Innocent Friend 

As pure as a pearl, 

And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date— 



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My Argumentative Friend 

He'd undertake to prove by force 
Of argument a man's a horse. 
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, 
And that a lord may be an owl. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



50 



My Versatile Friend 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variety. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



51 



My Humorous Friend 

You hear that boy laughing? — you think he's all fun; 
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; 
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, 
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all. 



Name — 
Address 
Date 



52 



My Perfect Friend 

To those that know thee not, no words can paint! 
And those who know thee know all words are faint. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



53 



My Model Friend 

Oh, what a grace is seated on his brow! 
A combination and a form indeed 
Where every god doth seem to set his seal 
To give the world assurance of a man. 



Name _ 
Address. 
Date 



54 



My Angelic Friend 

A perfect woman, nobly plann'd 
To warn, to comfort, and command; 
And yet a spirit still, and bright 
With something of an angel light. 



Name-. 
Address. 
Date 



55 



My Emotional Friend 

Underneath that face, like summer ocean's, 
Its lip as moveless, and its cheek as clear, 

Slumbers a whirlwind of the heart's emotions : 

Love, hatred, pride, hope, sorrow — all save fear. 



Name^ 
Address. 
Date 



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My Sanctimonious Friend 

Her soul is more than half divine, 

Where, through some shades of earthly feeling, 
Religions soften' d glories shine, 

Like light through summer foliage stealing. 



Name — 
A ddress. 
Date 



57 



My Manly Friend 

A stalwart, active, soldier-looking stripling, 
Handsome as Hercules ere his first labor, 
And with a brow of thought beyond his years 
When in repose, till his eye kindles up 
In answering yours. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



58 



My Fickle Friend 

She is soft as the dew-drops that fall 
From the lips of the sweet-scented pea ; 
Perhaps when she smiled upon all, 
Thou hast thought that she smiled upon thee. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



59 



My Broad Friend 

The friend of man, the friend of truth, 
The friend of age, the guide of youth ; 
Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, 
Few heads with knowledge so informed. 



Name^ 
Address. 
Date— 



60 



My Bonny Friend 

No fairer grows the lily of the vale, 
Whose bosom opens in the vernal gale ; 
While health that rises with the new-born day 
Breathes o'er her cheek the softest blush of May. 



Name — 
Address 
Date 



61 



My Indispensable Friend 

In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, 
Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, 
Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, 
There is no living with thee, nor without thee. 



Name — 
Address. 
Date 



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